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Federal Priorities:
- AG Jeff Sessions: Tell Congress to Reject Jeff Session's Reversal of the Cole Memo
- MJ Justice: The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017 Introduced
- Caucus: Tell Your Congressional Representative: Join the Cannabis Caucus
- Protect Our Progress: Bipartisan Leaders Reintroduce the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act
- Deschedule Marijuana: The Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017
Tell Your State Lawmakers To Put Marijuana On Their 2018 Agenda
2018 Legislation Pending Gubernatorial Action
- Georgia: Legislation to Expand Medical CBD Access
- Maine: Legislation to Expand Medical Marijuana Access
- Maryland: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation
2018 State Legislation: Legalization
- Timely! New Jersey: Deschedule Marijuana
- Connecticut: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Delaware: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Illinois: Legislation to Put Legalization to a Public Vote
- Illinois: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Minnesota: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- New Jersey: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
- New Jersey: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- New York: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Vermont: Legislation to Tax and Regulate Marijuana
2018 State Legislation: Decriminalization
- Alabama: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
- Louisiana: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
- Pennsylvania: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
2018 State Legislation: Medical
- Timely! New Jersey: Tell Regulators to Put Patients First
- California: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
- Colorado: Legislation to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
- Delaware: Legislation to Expand Medical Marijuana Program
- Florida: Medical Marijuana Reciprocity Effort
- Illinois: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
- Louisiana: Legislation to Expand Medical Cannabis Program
- New Hampshire: Legislation to Expand Patient Access
- New Jersey: Legislation to Expand Patient Access
- New Jersey: Let Doctors Decide When to Recommend Medical Marijuana
- New Jersey: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
- New York: Legislation to Expand Veteran Access to Medical Marijuana
- New York: Let Doctors Decide When to Recommend Medical Marijuana
- New York: Permit Physicians to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
- Rhode Island: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
- South Carolina: Medical Marijuana Legislation
- Tennessee: Legislation to Establish Medical Marijuana Access
- Tennessee: Legislation to Regulate Medical Marijuana Extracts
- Tennessee: Medical Marijuana Exemption Bill
- District of Columbia: Legislation to Expand Medical Cannabis Access
2018 State Legislation: Other
- Alaska: Legislation to Seal Past Marijuana Convictions
- Alaska: Legislation to Expand Banking Options to Cannabis Businesses
- Alaska: Seeking Sanctuary State Status for Marijuana Operators
- Arizona: Legislation to Enhance Testing Procedures
- California: Legislation to Automatically Expunge Past Marijuana Convictions
- California: Legislation to Expand Banking Options for Marijuana Businesses
- California: Legislation to make California a Marijuana Industry Sanctuary State
- California: Legislation to Temporarily Lower Cannabis Taxes
- Hawaii: Medical Marijuana Reciprocity Effort
- Iowa: Legislation to Expand Medical CBD Program
- Kansas: Legislation to Legalize the Retail Sale of CBD
- Massachusetts: Bill Seeking Sanctuary State Status for Marijuana Operators
- New Hampshire: Bill to Permit Home Cultivation of Medical Marijuana
- New Hampshire: Legislation to Allow Expungement of Certain Marijuana Convictions
- New Jersey: Legislation to Allow Expungement of Marijuana Convictions
- New Jersey: Legislation to Protect Cannabis Consumers from Employment Discrimination
- Oklahoma: Establish the Oklahoma Cannabis Commission
- Pennsylvania: Resolution Urging Congress to Deschedule Marijuana
- Vermont: Legislation to Expunge Past Marijuana Convictions
- Washington: Legislation to Expand Banking Options for Marijuana Businesses
2018 State Legislation: Hemp
- Illinois: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation
- Iowa: Industrial Hemp Research Legislation
- Missouri: Legislation to Allow Industrial Hemp Research
2018 State Legislation NORML Opposes
- Maine: Oppose Effort to Amend Home Cultivation Quotas
- Missouri: Oppose Unscientific Zero Tolerance DUI Drug Legislation
- New Hampshire: Oppose Additional Possession Penalties
- Oklahoma: Legislative Effort to Preemptively Amend Pending Medical Marijuana Legislation
Additional Federal Efforts:
- New: Legislation to Protect Lawful Medical Marijuana Use From Housing Discrimination
- Veterans: Legislation to Explicitly Authorize the Veterans Administration to Facilitate Medical Marijuana Research
- Medical: Acknowledge the Role of Cannabis in Combating the Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemic
- Judicial: Protect Legal Marijuana from Federal Interference
- Legalization: The Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act Introduced (Senate and House Bill)
- Veterans: House Bill Introduced to Expand Veterans’ Access to Medical Marijuana
- Medical: Legislation To Protect Medical Marijuana Patients Pending In Senate (CARERS Act)
- Medical: Bill Seeks to Reschedule Marijuana Under the CSA
- Medical: Remove Federal Restrictions on CBD
- Judicial: Demand That The New US Attorney’s Respect State Marijuana Laws
- Judicial: End Arbitrary License Suspensions For Minor Marijuana Possession (The Better Drive Act)
- Economic: Legislation Pending To Halt Federal Forfeiture Actions Against Marijuana Facilities
- Economic: Legislation Pending To Cease Penalizing State-Compliant Marijuana Businesses Under the Federal Tax Code
- Economic: Support The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE Banking Act)
- Economic: Support the State Marijuana And Regulatory Tolerance (SMART) Enforcement Act
- Economic: Support the Sensible Enforcement Of Cannabis Act
- Economic: House and Senate Measures Seek to Protect Marijuana Businesses and Consumers
- Economic: The Stop Civil Asset Forfeiture Funding for Marijuana Suppression Act
- Hemp: Exclude Hemp From the Controlled Substances Act
- Science: Legislation To Facilitate Medical Marijuana Research
- Advocacy: Tell AAA To Stop Lying About Legalization
- Advocacy: Tell President Trump to Abolish the Office of the Drug Czar
- Advocacy: Tell the ONDCP Opioid Commission: Medical Marijuana as an Alternative
2018 State Enacted Legislation
- Alaska: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
- Indiana: Legislation to Expand CBD Access
- Kansas: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
- Massachusetts: Marijuana Expungement Bill Provision Signed Into Law
- Oklahoma: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
- Utah: Legislation to Allow Medical Marijuana Research
- Vermont: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
- Virginia: Expand State's Medical CBD Law
2018 State Tabled / Defeated Legislation
- Arizona: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
- Arizona: Legislation to Obtain Sanctuary State Status
- Arizona: Legislation to Put Legalization on the Ballot
- Florida: Legislation to Allow Medical Marijuana Patients Legal Rights In Schools
- Florida: Legislation to Restore Patients’ Rights To Inhale Medical Marijuana
- Florida: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
- Georgia: Legislature is Considering Decriminalization
- Georgia: Legislation to Expand Medical CBD Access
- Georgia: Legislation to Expand State's Limited Cannabis Oil Program
- Georgia: Legislation to Halt Civil Asset Forfeiture Actions
- Georgia: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Hawaii: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation
- Hawaii: Marijuana Decriminalization Measure Pending
- Hawaii: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Hawaii: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
- Idaho: Legislation to Legalize CBD
- Indiana: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
- Indiana: Medical Marijuana Legislation
- Iowa: Bill to Reduce Possession Penalty for First Time Offenders
- Kansas: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Kansas: Medical Marijuana Legislation
- Kentucky: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Kentucky: Medical Marijuana Legislation
- Maryland: Legislation To Put Legalization On The Ballot
- Maryland: Legislation to Expand Decriminalization Law
- Maryland: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
- Michigan: Bill to Allow Patients to Travel with Medical Marijuana
- Mississippi: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
- Mississippi: Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana
- Mississippi: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Missouri: Legislation to Put Depenalization on the Ballot
- Missouri: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
- Missouri: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Nebraska: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
- Nebraska: Medical Marijuana Legislation
- New Hampshire: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- New Mexico: Legislation to Decriminalize Small Amounts of Marijuana Possession
- New Mexico: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- New Mexico: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
- Rhode Island: Legislation to Put Legalization to a Public Vote
- Tennessee: Legislation to Put Medical Marijuana Question on the Ballot
- Virginia: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
- Washington: Legislation Pending to Permit Home Cultivation
- Washington: Legislation to Obtain Sanctuary State Status
- West Virginia: Legislation to Expand State's Medical Marijuana Law
- West Virginia: Marijuana Legalization Effort
- Wisconsin: Legislation to Allow Licensed CBD Production
Read the Full List of 2017 Approved and Enacted Legislation
Continuing Legal Education
5/31/2018
